Consumer-graphics collection Est. 2026 · Vancouver

CLIPARCHIVE

A working museum of clip art, 1980s–early 2000s.

Now cataloguing·MS Office 97 · PCPaintbrush 1994 · Print Shop Deluxe 1995 · SoftKey Ultimate 1996·New acquisitions posted daily·All objects recovered from circulating media·The whole store is the show·

On view

Exhibits

Curated shows drawn from the open-storage holdings. Where the Archive is the whole store, an exhibit is an argument: a reading of the material, assembled from objects that are also on the shelf.

The Bouquet
On view
One arrangement, eleven accessions, three collections, two years apart.
Objects
11
Also Catalogued As
On view
The most-resold images in the archive, and the scholarship of counting them.
Objects
12
The Office, 1996
On view
The white-collar workplace, drawn by the software that ran it.
Objects
14